Wyoming carjacker was in Windsor area

A suspect involved in a Wyoming car jacking is believed to be armed and possibly dangerous – perhaps in the Windsor area – according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities said Jeremy Lee Dike, 29, stole, at knife point, a red Pontiac Grand Am from a 17-year-boy old from Wheatland, Wyo.

According to sheriff’s office spokeswoman Margie Martinez, Dike was picked up by the 17-year-old boy near Wheatland on Monday night. Martinez did not know if the boy knew Dike or picked him up as a hitchhiker.

Dike asked the boy to drive him to Cheyenne, about 75 miles south of Wheatland. When the youth refused, Dike pulled out a knife, the boy told authorities. The two drove around Cheyenne and southeast Wyoming for a while, then Dike told the boy to drive across the Colorado border. Martinez did not know the identity of the boy.

At 7 a.m. Tuesday, Dike told the youth to get out of the car beside Colo. 392 near Windsor. Dike then apparently drove to Windsor and left the car behind the Shamrock Taxi property at 4th and Main streets.

The car was found by members of Windsor Police department about 3 p.m. Windsor police and officers from the sheriff’s office then started an area-wide search.

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Dike is described as about 6 feet tall, 145 pounds, with light brown hair about an inch long and with full facial hair including a goatee and mustache. The suspect has tattoos around his neck, one of them a bighorn ram. He was wearing a white tank top, blue jeans, a dark tan Carhartt coat with red liner, and boots. Martinez said Dike ap-peared to be high on some sort of drug.

According to the police scanner, Dike was last seen on foot in Windsor trying to catch a ride back to Wyoming. Martinez said he has a knife and is possibly dangerous.

“He has threatened one person already; he could do it again,” Martinez said.

She said the 17-year-old was not injured but seemed pretty shaken up by the incident.